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zephyrbug · 2 months ago

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God you ever just remember and old character and are like consumed by the thought of them?? Like you were incredible I gotta bring you back NOWWW‼️‼️

#This is about tufani #MY SWEET BOAR GIRL #She’s perfection i need to get her into a proper game #i’m entering my era of loving kind hearted heroic characters again #staring at her art #my BABY

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att9me · 2 months ago

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Get to Know My Tav!

(I saw this template and had to get all of this out my head!)

Tufani Anu / Human / Storm Sorcerer / He/Him / 25

What’s your Tav’s…

Favorite Weapon: Cacophony Quarterstaff (prefers to cast via his hands though)

Style of Combat: Long-Range, Blaster, Crowd-Control; Tufani prefers to lead his companions from behind, like a general. He’ll hang back or fly high to cast his elemental spells to do powerful blasts and widespread damage or use the weather to alter the battlefield for his allies.

Most Prized Possession: A divination mirror given to him by his belated grandmother. It allows to him divine truths, aid in rituals, and speak to his ancestors.

Deepest Desire: Tufani is pragmatic and responsible by nature and through guidance from his parents and elders. However, deep down lies a free spirit that longs to live in the sky with nothing beneath him but the blue of the sea.

Guilty Pleasure: Sweets/Desserts. He has a big sweet tooth especially for cakes and breakfast pastries.

Best-Kept Secret: He comes from a long line of powerful, elemental sorcerers via his mother (an earth sorcerer). Therefore, his elemental magic is very intertwined with his emotions and he must keep them in check to cast effectively. The tattoo on his face is also not just for aesthetics. It’s a mark of his heritage and serves as his arcane focus.

Greatest Strength: Empathy, Compassion. Tufani was raised by not just his immediate family but also extended family and the surrounding community as well. He taught to use his magic to help and aid others. This is why he looks after the companions so much as well those they help on their journey.

Fatal Flaw: Overextension/Addicted to responsibility. Tufani is conditioned to helping out his family, friends, and community so much that it spreads him thin and wears him out. Unfortunately, he repeats this pattern with the camp companions and all the helpless people the meet on their way to Baldur’s Gate that it leads to him being overwhelmed and burned out.

Favorite Smell: Floral and Tropical scents.

Favorite Spell or Cantrip: Ice Storm and Ice Knife. As a Storm sorcerer, Tufani’s atmokinetic magic gives him control over multiple elements: wind/air/thunder, rain/fog/mist/water, light/heat/lightning, and cold/ice. To most people’s surprise, ice is his go-to element, not lightning. It’s the element that intertwines with his anger and it feels good to let it out.

Pet Peeve: Arrogance, Selfishness. Tufani detests arrogance as well as wanton selfishness. He’s not opposed to one putting themselves first , if necessary. However, when it comes before the survival and needs of others, absolutely not. This is initially why he clashes with Astarion and Lae’zel.

Bad Habit: Self- Isolation. Despite growing up surrounded by so many people, Tufani is an introvert by nature. He loves to be by himself when he gets the chance. However, it’s also a coping mechanism that he uses to hide his emotions and vulnerability. Usually leading him to not seek help when he needs to.

Hidden Talent: Expert Gardener/Herbalist. Tufani has a natural affinity with nature. Thus, his love for gardening and herbalism is one of his favorite pass-times. The hobby was passed down to him from both his mother and grandmother. Tufani is also a great at drawing which he gets from his father. He usually likes to draw scenes and stills from nature and occasionally people (when they aren’t looking).

Leisure Activity: Reading. He loves to read books about history, botany, and animals. He’ll also read an adventure book from time to time.

Favorite Drink: Tea. He also enjoys the occasional Whalebone Spiced.

Comfort Food: Seafood (especially calamari and crab). He is native to isles and thus has a love for heavily spiced seafood much to Gale’s chagrin (they argue over being camp cook as much as they debate sorcerer vs wizards).

Favorite Person: Wyll Ravengard

Favorite Display of Affection (Platonic and/or Romantic): Interlocking of Arms. He loves it when Wyll offers his arm for him to wrap his own hand or arm around it.

Fondest Childhood Memory: Attending the island festivals with his parents.

And that’s my tav, Tufani Anu! I’ve had these thoughts in my head for a while now and it feels good to finally get it all out.

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kourabiedes · 1 year ago

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How's that Mohatu story coming along? Yeah, you know the one~

Oh, yeah, I guess I can talk about that!

She's talking about a TLK fanwork I got in progress involving the life of Mohatu (a semi-canon character usually considered to be Mufasa and Scar's grandfather). See the boy himself:

More rambling under the cut!

My headcanon of Mohatu involves him being the younger of two brothers and actually in line to be the next leader of the Lion Guard (yes, this headcanon uses Lion Guard lore... some of it anyway). He and his brother Kirabo have a very different relationship than Mufasa and Scar -- they're the absolute best of friends, and always at each other's side.

Mohatu spends his youth in training to be the next leader of the Guard under the watchful eye of his uncle Upendo. Mohatu finds himself very interested in the non-lion residents of the realm, even befriending a young hyena, Tufani, who will become matriarch of the local hyena clan. Everyone expects that he'll be a truly great Guard.

And then tragedy strikes and he's thrust into the role of new King, just as the worst drought the Pridelands has ever seen begins.

Also sometime in his very early adulthood he gets this gem of a girlfriend. Her name is Pao and she is one tough cookie.

So yeah I'd say that's going well.

#tlk #tlk headcanon #tlk fanfic #mohatu #jc it's a lion get in the car #art #leigh talks about story progress

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salem-ilmari · 2 years ago

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Family Dynamics

The Ilmari Clan is a nomadic group of Garreem Vanniree from the planet Marloken. They are comprised of a polyamory of five parents and their children.

Languages Spoken: Arkmoliin, Vaddikot, Ssrazt

The Parents

Salem’s a lot closer to Göckan and Frida since they all sort of take turns being the mediators of the family. They usually keep to themselves and bond over tea, art, books and music. Salem inherited his singing abilities and love for music from Göckan, and Frida taught him how to draw with charcoal and paint.

Shiloh is the stern, disciplinarian, and she was usually in-charge of most of the children’s education along with Kailani and Zaheer. She definitely has a temper, and Salem probably inherited much of his sass from her. She’s a skilled navigator and artist, and her medium of choice is sculpting. Frida and Salem are usually the only ones who can calm down Shiloh when she gets angry.

Kailani and Zaheer are usually the more rambunctious of the polyamory, and they were the ones who encouraged self-expression and talking about feelings in the family. The pair of them acted more like children together than they did parents, but when it came down to setting up the commune and cooking, they were the ideal pair.

Zaheer and Göckan hate the cold, and they’re the reason why the clan migrate prior to the winter.

Frida and Zaheer

They had a pair of hatchlings together and named them Olivia and Tufani. Out of all of the siblings, Olivia is the only religious one, and she believes in a polytheistic religion centered on reincarnation. She found the religion a few years after she left the nest and works with a non-profit in that religion to care for Vanniree orphans. She takes being the eldest in the family very seriously and is very motherly to her siblings.

Tufani became an art curator at the Sy’Llear Institute of Cultural Heritage and currently lives with his own polyamory.

Frida and Gökcan

They had a pair of identical hatchlings who couldn’t be any more different in terms of personality. Naseem was older by 10 minutes and usually liked to lord that over Warren. While Warren was always prim and proper, always a stickler for the rules, Naseem often liked to go with the flow and believed that rules were made to be broken. There was never a day when they didn’t fight over something trivial. Warren went on to become an aerospace engineer, while Naseem became an actor in a traveling theatre troop called The Dirtbags. They haven’t been on speaking terms since Warren left the nest, and to this day, no one knows what really happened.

Willow is an ambitious girl who was usually found making clothes for her siblings. She went on to become a fashion designer, and she is currently an apprentice at Lovern City.

Shiloh and Gökcan

While triplets were fairly common with a lot of Vanirree, they were the only set the family had. Sepher looked up to Naseem and took his side when Warren left, joining in on the personal vendetta even though he had no idea why the fought in the first place. When he left the nest at 31, he joined The Dirtbags.

Salem was interested in a variety of different artforms, and he had a lot of siblings and his parents to look up to. He became one of the official family mediators whenever they had arguments. It took him a while to leave the nest because he couldn’t decide what he wanted to do with his life. After a one night stand gave him an idea to become a navigator, Salem applied for the first pirate ship he could find. Little did he know that it was the exact same ship that said one-night-stand was currently a first mate of.

Serafina and Salem were pretty close growing up, some would even say they were thick as thieves. While Salem was usually the passive one of the pair, Serafina was always the one who stood up for him and made sure that his voice was heard. She is now studying to become a lawyer.

Kailani and Zaheer

Kailani didn’t want a lot of children of her own, and she only really wanted to experience childbirth once. Thankfully that didn’t entail her having multiples. Aspen was the family’s ray of sunshine and had a knack for stand-up comedy and pop culture. He’s skilled in technology and is the resident tech support in the family.

Shiloh and Zaheer

Cielo is the baby of the family, and she knows it. She thrives off all the attention and loves having a lot of older siblings to watch out for her. She has a unique fashion sense and loves to sing.

#headcanon #ilmari clan #i might do their vanneer appearances some other day #right now brain is tired

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miraclecherryblossomsblog · 3 years ago

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Nanami and Tufani’s families are really close friends. So every summer break they meet at this really big house and just hang out for a couple of weeks.

this kinda gives Nanami and Tufani in easy way to meet up (they hang out at the rooftop) without any problems. But, well in Islam (the main religion in Saudi Arabia (?)) says that woman should cover there whole body to stranger men (with the exception of the father, brothers, uncles, grandfathers, fiancé/husband and sons (obviously))

So they can’t really meet up any time they want. they have to wait until the really early morning since no one stays that late, meet at the attic door and Tunafi opens it and they spend there time there. Chatting, playing, making out and fucking really.

They are so many times where they almost got caught but Nanami is a pretty good lier so they always get away with it.

oh the house they meet at is in a village (witch make it so hard to hang out outside since everyone knows everyone) and it has only one cafe witch they always go on dates there. Or sometimes they get the snacks and drinks and go to a big park called “Dickat(?)) which it’s tiny parks in a big one.

one day they were crazy enough to drive to the close city (only 30 minutes) and go on there really quick date because they got bored of the ttiny village.

i have so many stories but i feel like i would annoy you with them😭 you can ask about anything I literally have the whole story in my head for years

Man I wanna be able to come up with stories like that. Writters just amaizing tbh AND U ALSO DRAW which gives u more power at this point

Pls don't feel like it's a bother cuz it isn't! If u wanna share a stories of ur oc pls do! I love hearing of them!

This goes for anyone too!

#cherry answer #nanami

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toldnews-blog · 6 years ago

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Charity 'Sunshine' Tillemann-Dick: Opera singer with transplanted lungs dies

Image copyright Facebook, courtesy of Charity Tillemann-Dick

Image caption Charity Tilleman-Dick performed her soprano on stages across the world

Charity “Sunshine” Tillemann-Dick, a venerated American opera singer who survived two double lung transplants, has died at age 35.

Tillemann-Dick was diagnosed with pulmonary hypertension in 2004, forcing her to undergo two emergency lung transplants needed to save her life.

Despite her illness Tillemann-Dick pursued a renowned career, performing her soprano across the world.

Her family announced her death on her Facebook page on Wednesday.

“This morning, life’s curtain closed on one of its consummate heroines”, the post said.

“Our beloved Charity passed peacefully with her husband, mother, and siblings at her side and sunshine on her face.”

A cause of death was not immediately clear.

Tillemann-Dick lived in Baltimore, Maryland with her husband Yonatan Doron.

She performed across the US, Europe and Asia. Her opera roles included Titania in A Midsummer’s Night Dream, Gilda in Rigoletto and Violetta in La Traviata.

The singer took the stage at storied theatres worldwide, including the Rose Theater at Lincoln Center in New York, the John F Kennedy Center in Washington DC and the Palace of the Arts in Budapest.

Image copyright Facebook, courtesy of Charity Tillemann-Dick

Image caption Tillemann-Dick on vacation in Argentina with her husband

Early life

Tillmann-Dick was raised in Denver, Colorado, growing up in a Mormon-Jewish family alongside her 10 siblings.

Though she loved to sing from an early age, cherishing family trips to the symphony and opera, Tillemann-Dick initially thought she might pursue a career in politics.

She would be following in the footsteps of her grandfather, Tom Lantos, a Holocaust survivor who served as a Democrat in the House of Representatives for almost 30 years, and an older brother, Tomicah Tillemann, who worked as a speech writer for Hillary Clinton.

“That’s kind of our family trade I suppose,” Tillemann-Dick said of politics in an interview with BBC World Service in 2013.

But after graduating from college and spending time on a few political campaigns, she made the choice to return to music.

“I decided I could never forgive myself if I didn’t try my hand at music”, she told the BBC.

Tillemann-Dick began an intensive training programme at the renowned Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, Hungary.

The diagnosis

At age 20 she was diagnosed with idiopathic pulmonary hypertension, a rare disease marked by extreme pressure on the heart with no apparent cause.

The condition had caused Tillemann-Dick’s heart to swell three and a half sizes beyond its normal size.

The diagnosis provided an explanation for her recent fainting spells and shortness of breath, and carried a life expectancy of two to five years.

Tillemann-Dick had said that one of her doctors told her she should stop singing for her condition.

Hoping to avoid a lung transplant, Tillemann-Dick was prescribed Flolan, a liquid medication delivered directly to the heart through a tube in her chest.

Image copyright Facebook, courtesy of Charity Tillemann-Dick

Image caption Tillemann-Dick lived with her husband in Baltimore

The pump, along with the necessary ice packs and auxiliary equipment, weighed about 4lbs (2kg), Tillemann-Dick told the BBC.

Not wanting to draw attention to her condition as she continued to audition and perform, Tillemann-Dick said she would strap her medication to her thigh.

“Sopranos are unpredictable enough, without critical illness,” she said,

In 2009, five years after the initial diagnosis, Tillemann-Dick received her first double lung transplant at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio.

Though the transplant was life-saving, Tilleman-Dick said she was very concerned about the surgery, particularly its impact on her voice.

“I had spent a lifetime training my body and my lungs and my voice to work in sync and I knew I would lose all of that,” she told the BBC.

The brutal surgery put Tillemann-Dick in a coma for over a month, unable to breathe on her own for almost two months.

Eating, walking and talking came next before Tillemann-Dick finally tried to sing again.

The first song she tried, she said, was Smile – made famous by Nat King Cole.

A career beset by illness

The average lung transplant lasts for about five years, but Tillemann-Dick’s body began to reject the transplanted organs just months after surgery.

As she awaited another donor match, doctors told her family that Tillemann-Dick was unlikely to survive, according to the Washington Post.

But as she waited, Tillemann-Dick continued to sing.

In 2011, still without functioning lungs, she debuted at Lincoln Center’s Rose Theater. As she sang, Tilleman-Dick had an oxygen tank and wheelchair waiting in the wings.

“I could barely breathe but I could still sing”, she told the BBC. “It was a miracle.”

In January 2012, she underwent her second double-lung transplant, from a middle-aged Honduran American woman.

Tillemann-Dick became close friends with her donor’s daughter, Esperanza Tufani.

Image copyright Facebook, courtesy Charity Tillemann-Dick

Image caption Tillemann-Dick’s debut album, American Grace, reached number one on the traditional classical charts on Billboard upon release

Second Act

Apparently undeterred by her illness, Tillemann-Dick continued to pursue her career, singing with a new pair of lungs.

Her debut album, American Grace, reached no 1 on Billboard’s traditional classical charts upon its release in 2014.

Tillemann-Dick’s dedication to music was perhaps matched by her advocacy work.

She was a national spokeswoman for the Pulmonary Hypertension Association, working to raise awareness, increase federal research funding and promote preventative medicine.

Tillemann-Dick also shared her inspiring story with audiences across the US, including at numerous TED Talks.

“It was so many miracles that paved this most unexpected of paths”, she said to the BBC.

In 2015, Tillemann-Dick was confronted with another health problem.

She was diagnosed with a rare and aggressive skin cancer, thought to be a result of the anti-rejection drugs she had taken for her lungs.

Treatment required chemotherapy, radiation and surgery, including a particular procedure that required cutting a nerve on her face, affecting muscle movement on the right side of her mouth, the Washington Post reported.

“Life is full of death. Music, full of sorrow”, Tillemann-Dick wrote in her 2017 book, The Encore: A Memoir in Three Acts.

“Great artists have always amplified both.”

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radhehusan-blog · 6 years ago

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Hum apko gusse or man ko kabu me karne ke liye wazifa, amal or taweez denge. Ye apke ya kisi bhi shaksh ke gusse ko shant kar denga. Wazifa insan ke tanav ko kam karta hain. Taweez se insan ke man or deemak ko kabu me kiya jata hain. Sirf 9 din ke liye humse liya hua amal karna hoga, isme jalali aur jamali ka koi parehaz nhi hain. Aap bina dare kar skate hain.

Zid Khatam Karne Ke Liye :-

Bachye na samaj hote hain. Wo kisi bhi cheez ko lene ke liye dod padte hain. Kuch bachye ziddi hote hain. Wo ek baat par aad jate hain, to wo usse lekar hi rahte hain. Aise Bachyo ki zid khatam karne ke liye apko wazifa ki zurarat hoti hain. Hum apko taweez bhi denge. Ye taweez itna asardar or nayab hain ki apka bacha ya koi bhi zid karni chor dega. Kisi ki zid khatam karne ke liye ye wazifa bahut acha hain. Ye wazifa apko 11 dino tak karna honga. Iss wazifa ko apko karna bhi batayege.

Shohar Ka Gussa Control Me Karne Ka Wazifa :-

Biwi shohar ke mukable jyada mohabbat karne wali hoti hain. Eske ander mohabbat ka tufani samunder hi hai jisaki wajah se nasle insani ka wajud or badotri jari hain, agar biwi ke sath puri mohabbat ki jaye or shohar ki taraf se use jahni sukun mil jaye to samaj ki anekon buraiya khatam ho sakti hain. shohar ke bure suluk se nijat pane ke liye esha ki namaz ke baad biwi awwal aakhir 11-11 baar Darood Sharif ke sath pare

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#zid khatam karne ke liye wazifa #Wazifa For Love | Rohani Taweez | Amulet | Istikhara | Quranic Dua &raquo

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contentsharing0 · 7 years ago

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Singing with another woman’s lungs

(CNN)This fall, renowned soprano Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick will inhale deeply, filling her new transplanted lungs with air, and sing. Performing alongside her will be Esperanza Tufani, a 24-year-old restaurant manager in Ohio. Tufani’s mother was the donor for Tillemann-Dick’s lungs.

“It will be a coming together for what was and what is,” Tillemann-Dick said. She received the lungs of Tufani’s mother, an immigrant from Honduras, in a transplant operation in 2012. Tufani’s mother died of a stroke at 48.

The transplant sparked a friendship between the opera singer and the young woman she met a year after her surgery.

“Singing with Charity … it’s just something I can’t really describe. The thought of me singing with my mother would be amazing, but since that’s not possible, still in a way getting to do that through Charity is just … it’s just an incredible feeling,” Tufani said.

Overcoming the odds

Now 34, Tillemann-Dick has gotten fame and acclaim alongside the physical and emotional toll of two separate double lung transplants.

In 2004, she was diagnosed with advanced idiopathic pulmonary hypertension, a rare and potentially fatal condition that affects the heart and lungs. At the time, she was studying at the renowned Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, Hungary. Her doctors told her to stop singing, but Tillemann-Dick refused. She attempted to avoid a transplant by having a prescribed liquid medication pumped directly to her heart through a tube in her chest, 24 hours a day.

Tillemann-Dick wanted to keep the lungs she had worked tirelessly for years to train. Her vocal cords could be damaged in surgery, and there was a very real chance she would never sing again. Even if the procedure went perfectly, she would have to learn how to sing with the new lungs.

But in 2009, her condition deteriorated drastically, and Tillemann-Dick could no longer avoid a transplant. In the nearly 14-hour surgery, she had 40 quarts of blood transfused into her body. She was put in a medically induced coma for 34 days.

“After I woke up from my first surgery, I had this tremendous guilt and sadness for my donor,” Tillemann-Dick said of her first transplant in 2009. “I felt terrible for their family and for everything that they had endured.”

Then, her body rejected the transplant after years of brutal recovery. Tillemann-Dick was almost certain she was going to die. “Second transplants are very rare,” she said. Six months in the hospital waiting for a donor were excruciating, and she started having conversations with God as she prepared to die.

“I didn’t feel like my life was ready to be over,” she said.

But in 2012, she matched with another registered donor: Tufani’s mother, Flora Brown. This time, the lungs took, and within a week of the procedure, she was breathing on her own.

“But when I woke up from the second transplant, it was different,” she said. “I felt this intense, all-encompassing gratitude for this family and these people and this woman whose life I was carrying forward.”

She was out of the hospital in March 2012 and had her first performance at the Indianapolis Opera in May, just months later.

Despite doctors telling her she would never sing opera again, her debut album, “American Grace,” reached No. 1 on Billboard’s traditional classical charts in 2014.

Finding friendship and family

In 2012, she wrote a letter to Brown’s family, telling them what the new lungs meant to her.

At first, she didn’t hear anything back. Her letter went through the hospital and then the United Network for Organ Sharing and Lifebanc, which gave Brown’s family the option of collecting the letter. Per network regulations, Tillemann-Dick could sign the letter with only her first name and couldn’t include information about where she lived, how old she was, the name of her surgeon or hospital, or any contact information.

Later that year, Tufani hosted a group of people from her church for a retreat at her home. She took out the letter and read it aloud to everyone. Unknown to Tufani at the time, one of the women in the group was also a friend of Tillemann-Dick’s.

The letter began, “Dear family, it may seem awkward for me to address you as family, but I feel related to you in a very literal way.” Before Tufani finished reading the letter, their mutual friend recognized who it had to be from. She immediately connected the two over Facebook Messenger.

Tillemann-Dick and Tufani have since become close friends, and Tillemann-Dick attended Tufani’s wedding in 2015. “We talk on Instagram all the time,” she said.

Recently, they reunited in Ohio and sang “The Star-Spangled Banner” and “O Holy Night,” recording themselves to see how their voices sound together. Tufani works full-time managing a fast food restaurant, but she loves to sing at her church.

Tillemann-Dick comes from a big Mormon family in Denver. She is the fifth of 11 children, just like Brown was, she said. “She also had five sisters, just like I do,” Tillemann-Dick said.

Tufani, who was born in Ohio, said she only remembers her mother from when she was very young, before her parents split. When her mother died of a stroke, Tufani met family members she had never seen before at the hospital when they all received the call.

“Like any girl who doesn’t have a mom, you want to know them,” Tufani said. “It was overwhelming when she passed because it was the first time (in a long time) that I had even seen her, at the hospital.”

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Tillemann-Dick’s health struggles have continued. Transplant patients, because of years of immunosuppressant medications, are at significantly increased risk for all types of cancers. Last year, Tillemann-Dick had a cancer of the parotid gland, which led to chemotherapy, radiation and doctors removing the gland, along with part of the facial nerve. The cancer has not returned.

Tufani said she has read Tillemann-Dick’s letter to many people, to show them what organ donation can do. She said, “Organ donation gives people like Charity a second chance at living their life.”

Now, Tilleman-Dick is singing with a new purpose in life and has partnered with Donate Life to launch a social media campaign called the Donate Life #MyEncore Challenge. The goal is to encourage organ donor signups and have people share their stories of being given second chances at life.

Her memoir “The Encore” is about the second chances she’s been given. It was published in October.

Tufani is always encouraging people to sign up to be an organ donor.

“To me, it’s just been such a blessing, because it’s almost as if she didn’t die for nothing. She died but gave people life, and it’s such a beautiful thing to see life come from a situation like that,” Tufani said.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/13/health/turning-points-opera-singer-lung-transplant/index.html

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kansascitywatch · 7 years ago

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Top Things to do in Kansas City this Weekend

Looking for something to do this weekend in Kansas City? Here are 3 suggestions that guarantee a good time in KC!

Nelson-Atkins Museum

The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art is an art museum in Kansas City, Missouri, known for its neoclassical architecture and extensive collection of Asian art. The museum currently holds almost 40,000 works of art, and has been recognized internationaly as one of the top art museums in the USA. Visit every Saturday and Sunday for FREE activities for all ages!

Address: 4525 Oak St, Kansas City, MO 64111

Worlds of Fun

Words of Fun is Kansas City’s premier amusement park, featuring 235 acres of rides and slides. Two great parks for one great price in 2013. Experience both parks for one low price! Slide all day and ride all night! Experience seven roller coasters, huge water slides, thrill rides, Planet Snoopy for the whole family, and a brand new Oceans of Fun! For the 2018 season, Worlds of Fun will be introducing a new family ride for all ages, the Nordic chaser! The ride gives the sensation of rising and falling along ocean waves. Be sure to visit fall of 2017 to experience Halloween Hunt, The Great Pumpkin Fest, and Winterfest!

Address: 4545 Worlds of Fun Ave, Kansas City, MO 64161

Kansas City Zoo

Theres no better time to visit the Kansas City Zoo than during this wonderful September weather! Kansas City Zoo is a 202-acre zoo founded in 1909. It is located in Swope Park at 6800 Zoo Drive Kansas City, Missouri, in the United States. It is home to more than 1000 animals including Layla, Kalijon, Radi, Nikita, Tufani, Makena. Be sure to visit the zoo this weekend Sep 16-Sep 17 for the Cheetah Run.

Address: 6800 Zoo Dr, Kansas City, MO 64132

These are just a few of the top things to see and do in KC. Click here to learn more about Kansas City

from Kansas City Watch https://kansascitywatch.wordpress.com/2017/09/13/top-things-to-do-in-kansas-city-this-weekend/

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repwincoml4a0a5 · 8 years ago

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This Week in Seattle: A booming city, an expectant giraffe, Trump’s travel ban, and more

This Week in Seattle is your weekly dispatch of need-to-know news from the Emerald City. (BigStock Image) Seattle is the fastest-growing city in the country Seattle’s infamously crowded Mercer Street. (GeekWire Photo)

The Seattle Times ‘FYI Guy’ Gene Balk crunched the latest Census data to reveal what many of us already instinctively new: Seattle’s population is growing faster than any other major city in the U.S. The city’s population hit 704,352 in 2016, growing at a 3.1 percent rate. That amounts to 57 people moving here per day, according to Balk. That growth, driven by the booming tech industry, surpassed Gold Rush-era population gains for the first time ever. “Seattle is a city on steroids,” Balk says. [The Seattle Times]

Trump’s travel ban likely headed for the Supreme Court Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson. (GeekWire Photo / Monica Nickelsburg)

A panel of federal appeals judges in Virginia this week refused to reinstate President Donald Trump’s travel ban on citizens from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen, citing religious discrimination. Judges from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments over the same executive order in Seattle last week, though they have not yet given their decision. Whatever they decide, the travel ban will almost certainly be appealed to the Supreme Court. Trump issued the revised executive order after his first attempt to limit travel from those countries was blocked by a lawsuit brought by Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson. His lawsuit and other legal challenges to the ban have been largely supported by the tech industry. “Another federal appeals court has agreed with our arguments that President Trump’s revised travel ban is unconstitutional,” Ferguson said of the most recent ruling. “This is an important victory for the rule of law.” [Recode, GeekWire, ATG.WA.Gov]

Steve Ballmer says a Seattle income tax would be bad for business Steve Ballmer discusses USA Facts. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota)

Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told KIRO Radio this week that a Seattle income tax could create an “unfavorable business climate” and “cause people to think about moving jobs elsewhere.” Ballmer has taken a particular interest in civic affairs lately, launching a non-profit called USAFacts, to bring more transparency to government data. The City Council unanimously approved a motion earlier this month to begin consideration of an income tax bill that would target Seattle’s wealthiest. The law will almost certainly be challenged in court, as the state’s constitution forbids local jurisdictions from imposing an income tax. The income tax debate is featuring heavily in Seattle’s contentious mayoral race, with many candidates endorsing the idea. [KIRO, GeekWire]

Seattle’s pregnant giraffe shows signs the big day is imminent

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Tufani is getting restless – and who could blame her after more than a year of pregnancy? Restlessness is just one of several signs that the Woodland Park Zoo giraffe is exhibiting that suggest a birth could come any day now. Giraffes have a 14- to 15-month gestation period so Tufani’s calf is expected sometime between May and July. But changes in her udder, a reduced appetite, and a desire to stay close to her shelter indicate her baby could come sooner rather than later. More than 3,000 Seattleites have placed bets on when the city’s “tallest baby” will arrive. [Blog.Zoo.Org]

Washington state legislature goes into overtime…again The State Capitol in Olympia, Wash. (Flickr Photo / WSDOT)

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee has ordered stalemated Olympia to enter a second special legislative session after they failed to agree on a budget that would adequately fund the state’s public schools. That funding is mandated by a Supreme Court ruling and the legislature is facing hefty daily fines until it can come up with the necessary cash. The Republican Senate and Democratic House didn’t pass any budget legislation over to the governor during the first special session this year. A partial government shutdown is possible if the legislature fails to pass a budget this session. “They’ve got to become reality-based at this point,” Inslee said. [KUOW, MyNorthwest]

Seattleites sound off on what it means to be a ‘local’

Local media startup The Evergrey asked Seattle residents what it means to be a “local,” in a new video that dives into the complex nature of town with such a rapidly-growing transplant population. The activewear uniform, Subaru ride, and progressive politics were commonly cited identifiers in the video. One resident says a willingness to do activities in the rain, where others would stay inside, marks a true local. Another said, “you have to have an appreciation of what makes Seattle, Seattle.” The video uses data from a new Civic Health Report, which Seattle CityClub presented at an event earlier this week. [The Evergrey, GeekWire]

Seattle City Council approves landmark police oversight bill Councilmember Lorena Gonzalez pushed for police oversight reform. (GeekWire Photo)

Seattle councilmembers unanimously approved a civilian oversight bill that would create three governing bodies — Office of Police Accountability, Office of the Inspector General, and Community Police Commission — to investigate police activity and hold officers accountable for wrongdoing. The bill has to go through negotiations with police unions and a ruling from a federal judge before it will be implemented but lawmakers counted the vote a success nevertheless. The council also wrote into law an existing policy that allows people in Seattle to record and comment on police activity. [Seattle Met]

Trump’s proposed budget cuts funding for Sound Transit Seattle is preparing for 24 new transportation projects. (Sound Transit Photo).

President Trump’s federal budget proposal would cut more than $1 billion in funding for Sound Transit, cash the department was relying on to extend Seattle’s light rail to Lynnwood. “I think it would be very difficult to make those dollars up,” said Sound Transit Chair Dave Somers. The department’s CEO, along with the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority issued a statement of opposition to Trump’s proposed cuts. [My Northwest]

Also note: There are 21 people running for mayor of Seattle in a race left wide open by incumbent Ed Murray’s decision not to run. Seattle Weekly has a good roundup of the candidates, by the numbers, in this unusual race that has big implications for the tech community and Seattle at large. The primary election for mayor is August 1.

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